HOW TO LIVE WITH HAPPINESS?

 What are ethics?

Ethics are simply can explain as moral principles that govern a person’s behavior or the conducting of an activity. Then what are ethical standards? Ethical standards are some of principles that are established by founders, for the goodness of living. We all have to live by ethical standards. Because we all love peaceful lives and loving relationships. According to ethical principles, cheat, lie, steal are some of wrong things that we have to avoid.

WHAT ETHICS ARE NOT?

Morality or ethics is not about sex. Sex can be a consideration of honesty, concern of others and avoidance of harm to others etc. but there are more things to concern in ethics. So ethics or morality is not primarily about sex.

And also ethics is not an ideal system. It is a practical way. Ethics are not about ‘do not lie’, ‘do not steal’ but also it’s about not forcing someone to do bad things. ‘bad things’ can be explain as ‘What you don’t like to faced, others also don’t like to it, then you must think others as you and do not doing harmful things’. Every person hates harmful things. 

But in some unusual situations, ethics are not suited.

Ethics is not based on religion. In all religions have their own ethics. But ethics is not depending on a religion. In my view religion is a good way to reasoning that why ethics are important and force people to live with ethical principles.

Ethics does not depend on the society which you live. That means the same thing can be right in one society and wrong in another society. But ethics can’t be true in one place and false in one place. A culture or the moral can be change in society to society. But ethics do not. The main example is having sex. When you live in America, the meaning or the belief of sex is all about happiness or somewhat about a needy thing in day-to-day life. But when you live in an eastern country like Sri Lanka, India or Pakistan these are very traditional countries. Their thoughts about sex are so traditional. They think that sex can have only for married couples and having sex with another one is a wrong thing. Like those things, it can be various traditional thoughts about something in various socials. But the ethics can’t be various in those societies.

   HEDONISM

In my view, hedonism is a method that about pleasure and satisfaction. A happy life or a better life is various for one another. When we have what we want, then we are in pleasure. The satisfaction level is high. We can consider the present happiness level by relatively what we want. That standard will help us to determine our level of well-being or welfare.

   Different between well-being and welfare

Well-being is referring to a person’s wellness or the quality of life. Many things can improve a person’s well-being such as amount of money, properties etc. Those things that can improve our well-being called ‘instrumental goods’. ‘Intrinsic goods’ are also important to our lives. Having happy family, be satisfying about life called intrinsic goods.

Welfare means the happiness of a person or a group. The word welfare used for represent the well-being of individuals.

Happiness is what we need in our life. Happiness is necessary to a good life. The word ‘hedonism’ derived from a Greek word ‘hedone’ means pleasure. Pleasure has two parts that are physical pleasure and attitudinal pleasure. Physical pleasure means a pleasure that we can have from doing something like eating chocolate, sleeping or having sex. Attitudinal pleasure means the positive attitude of enjoyment. Attitudinal pleasure is the happiness of life. Being happy does not necessary than anything. Everyone have different kind of life styles and different kind of likeness. Pleasure is different for one another. A thing that makes me happy, can someone else’s make unhappy. Pleasure and what make you pleasure is always different from others.

     THE PARADOX OF HEDONISM

When something makes you happy, then it seems reasonable to try very hard to acquire it. But trying hard and archiving happiness is not the actual pleasure. It almost never succeeds. This method called the paradox of hedonism. Happiness is in your own company. It can’t find when we hardly try to get.

Some people get a great pleasure by doing awful things like harming animals, harming others properties, bad kidding to someone. They enjoy these things much. But it comes from someone else’s pain. So this is not a right thing. These types of pleasures called evil pleasure. From this point we can make argument,

1.      If hedonism is true, the evil pleasure also is a good thing.

2.      Evil pleasure is not a good thing and pleasure comes from good things.

3.      So hedonism is false.

The built argument called as argument from evil pleasure.

Being unhappy is make bad sense to our lives. Start to be happy step by step. Because life is all about pleasure and inner peace. 

CONCLUSION

Being happy is the meaning of life. Life is too short to be worry. Take a small step to make happiness in your life. Make sure that you don’t find happiness. And be happy with doing good.

K. K. D. Sudeshika. (DS1254)

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